Open Letter to Kevin Rose — Please sign in the comments with your name (and user name) if you agree with the contents of this letter. — An open letter to Kevin Rose — By Muhammad Saleem & Mark Johnson — November 4, 2006 — Dear Kevin, — Please do not take this as an attack on Digg, the Digg team, or yourself.

Kevin Rose Failing Social Media 101 Miserably — Of course, I'm not talking about that 150 million dollar evaluation floating around, nor the rumours that Digg will be scooped up by Fox any minute to turn it into a MySpace Widget. — No — I'm referring to the latest algorithm change over at Digg.

Digg to Top Users: QUIT NOW? — Seems like the changes to the front page promotion algorithm have been drastic. After scrolling through the last 48 hours worth of stories promoted to the front page I counted a total of 2 stories submitted by top 25 users on Digg.

Top Digg Users Feeling Snubbed — Digg continues to grow, claiming 20 million visitors per month and an increasing amount of mainstream attention. But as traffic to Digg has grown, the incentive to "game" the site to get stories to the home page has also increased.

Netscape To Move From Tech/Politics Focus — Netscape, the five month-old Digg-clone experiment, is testing out two alternate home page designs with users in an attempt to increase the popularity of little-used topical categories. — I spoke with Jason Calacanis, who runs the Netscape property …

New views of Netscape Homepage/Hive — The Netscape homepage has been taken over by political stories. I hate politics, and seeing 1/3rd of the stories on the home page related to "Bush Sucks/Is Great" stories has really burned many of the users out. — You see, people vote 2-3x …

Quintura - Visual Find Engine — Quintura is the next-generation web search with a mission to make Web search easier and faster by adding context or meaning to keywords and visualizing search. — I love when a site gives you the ability to search by tags (del.icio.us - for example) I always find it more easy to use.

Mark Jung Leaves FIM/IGN; No Immediate Replacement As COO — Now I really wish I'd started a pool when Mark Jung, co-founder of IGN and CEO when it was acquired by News Corp., took the job as COO of Fox Interactive Media. Roughly eight months into his tenure, Jung has resigned quietly as COO.

Zango reaches settlement with FTC — Adware manufacturer Zango has reached an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission in response to charges that it breached federal law by deceptively installing advertising software on consumers' PCs without a clear means of removal.

Crowdsourcing news - more or less bias? — According to a strong article in Wired News, Gannett is trying to transform its newspapers by changing their newsrooms to 'information centers,' which will … Very interesting, very positive move by Gannett, which understands that locals want local news …

The Internet and The Problems of Attribution — As a follow-up to an article to On Feeder Blogs and Attribution, I had a chance to talk to Matthew Sparkes, Web Executive at New Scientist, about the effects of social media on online publications, how these publications are reacting to this shift …

release XX: one giant leap! — Remember when you graduated to riding a real bicycle? It was a pretty big day! A year ago, meebo had just put on its training wheels. Back then, we barely had emoticons and were months away from group chat. Now, we're taking off the training wheels and coming out of alpha!

Blogging is great — People have, since it started, complained about the fact that there is junk on the web. And as a universal medium, of course, it is important that the web itself doesn't try to decide what is publishable. The way quality works on the web is through links.

Macarena: once again no more than a demo virus for Mac OS X — Symantec has been predicting for quite a while now that virus authors would increasingly dedicate their attention to the Mac platform and that Macs were becoming a tempting target for hackers. However, a newly discovered Mac OSX virus …